Feature suggestions: optionally placing home folder into separate partition during ubuntu install

[Daniel Gross]

On my former Lenovo notebook windows xp pro installation, Lenovo added a
feature called "rejuvenate system", which restores windows xp to a
baseline installation (the first backup snapshot of the system taken),
while keeping all data files intact --presumably whatever is stored in
My documents.

Is this the kind of feature you mean with "in place re-installation"?


thanks,

Daniel


On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 21:56 +0000, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
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> Daniel Hollocher wrote on 05/11/10 15:20:
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> >>>> That is a common misconception. Reinstalling Ubuntu on the same
> >>>> partition doesn't lose the user's data either.
> >>>>
> >>>> A problem that is both real and more interesting, is working out why
> >>>> so many people have that misconception, and how we can correct it.
> >...
> > I imagine you would have to make it part of the gui of whatever
> > installer supports it if you wanted more people to use the feature.
> > Otherwise, it is a bit too complicated to communicate to people.
> >...
> 
> That's a good point.
> 
> Up till now, to get this effect, you had to use the advanced
> partitioning step, choose to use the existing root partition, but choose
> not to format it. That was pretty obscure.
> 
> Today Evan Dandrea, the installer maintainer, has been working on making
> in-place reinstallation one of the basic installation options.
> 
> - -- 
> Matthew Paul Thomas
> http://mpt.net.nz/
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